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	The Music Chamber - Dmitri Shostakovich
		Shostakovich was probably a far greater composer than his music exhibits.
		After composing these pieces, Shostakovich grew tired of being held back by Stalin and his officials, so he explored his ingenuity in chamber pieces, causing his to be condemned by the officials once again.
		Shostakovich's symphonies are equal to those of Gustav Mahler, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms.
	library.thinkquest.org /27110/noframes/composers/shostakovich.html (1000 words)

	cello_and_socialist_realism.html
		Marx supported the rights of the working class; he thought the organization of the society should offer all people equal rights, regardless of the position or wealth they were born to.
		Shostakovich was also one of the leading composers on the 1948 list of anti-revolutionary composers.
		Shostakovich protested the treatment of the Jews with the use of a Jewish melody in the fourth movement of the Second Piano Trio.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~kervamaa/socialist_realism.html (1849 words)

	Shostakovich Festival
		Shostakovich said, “There are some words at the bottom of this picture written by Dmitri Dmitrievitch in which he enumerated a list of topics he and Volkov discussed.
		From this list, you can see it only included topics from pre-war life in Leningrad.” The rest of the book, she said, is a recounting of stories and hearsay written by Volkov in the first person as though they were being related by the composer.
		Shostakovich first met the composer while she was working as an editor for a music publisher (preparing the release of “Moscow Cheryomushki” and the reissue of “Katerina Izmailova”).
	www.angelfire.com /music2/davidbundler/shostakovich.html (2833 words)

	Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7
		The Seventh is a problematic work, and I sympathize with any conductor who tires, as he must, to make it convincing all the way through.
		Some of his scherzi rage (in the tenth), some of them thumb their nose ("Humor" in the thirteenth), some dance on the edge, so that you wonder the dancer is intoxicated, or even in his right mind (the fifth and eighth).
		Shostakovich somehow favored the clarinet in the high register; and in this chorale, he "humanizes" this timbre (in a way opposite to the "wail" of the second movement).
	www.livewebshop.com /B00000IP39/Shostakovich_Symphony_No__7.html (2089 words)

	Onno van Rijen's Shostakovich & Other Soviet Composers Page
		Shostakovich ends his opera in the middle of scene 8, just before Ikharyov introduces his new friends to "Adelaida Ivanovna", the name he has given to his trusted pack of marked cards.
		The Variations for piano, clarinet and chamber orchestra is one of her most popular instrumental compositions: its passages of lyrical dialogue between the soloists, colourful impressionistic scenes and sections dominated by motivic energy form a well-balanced and integrated whole.
		Shostakovich and Stalin is a fascinating and important story of two remarkable and contrasting individuals, who in very different ways defined the century they lived in.
	home.wanadoo.nl /ovar (4910 words)

	The Chamber Music of Dmitri Shos
		Shostakovich was given more liberty with his chamber music, which by its very nature could not attract large-scale recognition, at least on the level of the Symphonies.
		Shostakovich wrote many fast movements and there is a very youthful, energetic feel to the works; even though the works still contain an element of grotesque that makes Shostakovich's works so unique.
		Shostakovich said in a letter while he was composing the quartet that chamber music is one of the hardest genres to compose for and that his work was merely an experiment.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~bs285902/info-pub.htm (1359 words)

	Shostakovich Piano Quintet Op.57 - Information and MP3 from ViolinMP3.com and the Hesse Ensemble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At the time of its premiere, the work was received with enormous acclaim both from critics and the general public; in fact, it was held up as "a portrait of our age...the rich-toned, perfect voice of the present" by one of Moscow's regime-friendly newspapers.
		Shostakovich was known for his performance anxiety, and this may well have been the cause of his fast tempi in performance and on disc.
		Shostakovich's Scherzo is both ironic and humorous; the marcato-like string unisons and unrelenting accented motifs hint at a militariness that is never far away.
	www.violinmp3.com /shostakovich-piano-quintet.html (808 words)

	The Dimitri Shostakovich Link Page on Classic Cat
		Shostakovich Museum - General introduction to the composer and a discussion of the Testimony issue.
		Shostakovich Myths Debunked - Controversial site that attacks the authenticity of Testimony and the revisionist interpretation of the composer's life and work.
		Shostakovich, Dmitry Dmitriyevich - Biography noting studies and influences, political struggles, and evolution of style under Soviet Communism with works list from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
	www.classiccat.net /shostakovich_d/links.htm (787 words)

	Shostakovich Chamber Symphony; Schnittke Piano Concerto (DE 3259)
		Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), the two most important Russian composers of the Soviet era, have a much-deserved reputation as sensitive and insightful chroniclers of the human soul's agonies and victories through times of tragedy and turmoil.
		Shostakovich, born in the Russian Empire 11 years before the Bolshevik revolution, came of age in the early '20s and witnessed Stalin's horrible purges (to which he lost several close friends and relatives).
		Shostakovich, spending most of his life in the isolation of Stalinist Russia, had to reject the innovative trends of the avant-garde.
	www.delosmus.com /item/de32/de3259.html (382 words)

	September - Season Calendar - Austin Symphony
		The works list in Laurel E. Fay's biography of Shostakovich holds music for 37 films and 13 sets of incidental music for plays out of 147 works with opus numbers.
		Shostakovich's preferred conductor, Yevgeni Mravinski, studied the score for a time then refused to perform it, likely for fear of the consequences if he did.
		Shostakovich took this as a personal betrayal, and the long-time friends and colleagues had no contact for years afterward.
	www.austinsymphony.org /season/september/shostakovich.asp (1476 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shostakovich died of lung cancer on August 9, 1975 and after a civic funeral was interred in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow.
		Shostakovich's works are broadly tonal and in the Romantic tradition, but with elements of atonality and chromaticism.
		Shostakovich's music shows the influence of many of the composers he most admired: Bach in his fugues and passacaglias; Beethoven in the late quartets; Mahler in the symphonies and Berg in his use of musical codes and quotations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dimitri_Shostakovich (4132 words)

	Galynin / Shostakovich / Ustvolskaya
		Shostakovich and Galynin wound up on the Zhdanov 1946 hit list of formalist composers (whatever that may mean), along with others like Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Miaskovsky, and just about any other Soviet composer you've heard of, as well as many you haven't.
		His first piano concerto -- a terrific, vital work -- could be called the Shostakovich 1.5, a cross between the cheeky Modernism of the latter's first and the bright spirits of the second.
		Shostakovich tries to give us a broad range of experience: one deals with the neurosis and tragedy of the sixth symphony, but also with the buoyancy of the ninth.
	classicalcdreview.com /galynin.html (996 words)

	SHOSTAKOVICH ~ NOTES Page ~ aMUSIClassical Directory
		Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906 - 1975) 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District'.
		Still after Stalin's death the work was not performed due to the stigma of the earlier unpopular symphonies.
		In the mid 1950's conductor Kiril Kondrashin showed interest in his works and premiered the fourth symphony at the end of 1961, and outside the USSR in 1962 at an Edinburgh ['ED in Ber' ah'] festival performance.
	www.angelfire.com /biz/musiclassical/shos.html (797 words)

	NPR : Shostakovich, Man of Many Variations
		Shostakovich was emerging from a period of total musical banishment with his fifth symphony, calling it "a response to my critics."
		Perhaps this anniversary year will afford us a chance to look at Shostakovich not only as the complex, conflicted being he must have been in that environment, but also purely as a human being who possessed a wonderful sense of humor and a lightness of being.
		These are not often celebrated aspects of Dimitri Shostakovich, but perhaps we will have time this year to avoid the predictable in exploring this profound artist.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6129917 (903 words)

	Shostakovich 100 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Interesting appendices are a listing of BBC broadcasts, a chronology of main works and historical events, and a list of works based on Shostakovich’s DSCH (D, E flat, C, B) signature musical motto.
		It is chiefly concerned with events in Shostakovich’s life and the progress of his career as a musician and composer.
		Published in conjunction with the Bard Festival, which featured Shostakovich in 2004, this is a collection of essays on topics ranging from Shostakovich and the Russian literary tradition to Shostakovich and his students to the issue of serialism in Shostakovich’s music.
	www.shostakovich100.org /biblio.shtml (1402 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shostakovich - Chamber Works: Music: Dmitry Shostakovich,Borodin Quartet,Elisabeth Leonskaja (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Shostakovich - Violin and Viola Sonatas ~ Dmitry Shostakovich
		Shostakovich’s second Piano Trio has a serious claim to being the finest piece of Chamber music from the mid 20th century and is among the greatest works of art to have emerged from the wreckage of the second world war.
		In particular it is Leonskaja who brings to the work an impeccable sense of dynamics and phrasing, drawing every nuance out of the bleak, often monosyllabic, melodic lines given to the piano and willing to fully embrace their desolate blankness.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Shostakovich-Chamber-Works-Dmitry/dp/B00005BCCS (610 words)

	Shostakovich at 100 : feature
		Since a lot of Shostakovich's reputation exists on hype around his oppression by the Soviet regime, a sobering account such as this is most welcome.
		Of course Shostakovich is much more than the sum of those thirty works, though they do form the backbone of his output.
		The Proms were almost saturated with Shostakovich this year - a couple of symphonies too many perhaps, and a shame that two fine concertos - the second for both cello and violin - were comparatively overlooked by programmers.
	www.musicomh.com /classical_features/shostakovich_0906.htm (1442 words)

	Shostakovich Conference 2006
		In honor of the 10th anniversary of the death of Weinberg and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Shostakovich, the Eastman School of Music invites you to Rochester for a weekend that will bring the lives and music of these men together once again.
		The Shostakovich selections include some of his best-known works; most of Weinberg’s music will be completely new to American audiences.
		In a year of numerous events observing the Shostakovich centenary, this conference offers a unique, intimate look at this seminal 20th-century composer, and a chance to discover the music of one of his great friends and colleagues.
	www.esm.rochester.edu /shostakovich (227 words)

	Shostakovich Multimedia CD/DVD-ROM Review - DSCH Journal 15
		Elsewhere there is also a complete list of works, a list of recordings, as well as commentary by and biographies of other leading individuals who worked with the composer or performed his music.
		Clips showing Shostakovich in newsreels, playing the piano, or composing may be regarded as predictable, but it's still wholly fascinating to have the opportunity of seeing Shostakovich in situations I'd previously only read about or seen stills of.
		The works list, or grid, covers each of Shostakovich's opuses with varying levels of description, including, for some, sound clips (not always accurately labelled - take the clip for opus 110: this is the fifth movement, not the first).
	www.dschjournal.com /reviews/chandvdrom.htm (990 words)

	The Shostakovich Controversy - 92Y Blog - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tonight and tomorrow night, the critically acclaimed Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson trio will be appearing here at Kaufmann Concert Hall to perform the works of Dmitri Shostakovich and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.
		Shostakovich has long been the subject of controversy due to his political views.
		Outwardly communist, he was posthumously revealed to have been a critic of the Soviet state; however, some claim the posthumous evidence was falsified or embellished.
	blog.92y.org /index.php/weblog/item/shostakovich (348 words)

	Conversational Reading: Friday Column: Shostakovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Throughout Shostakovich's career, the composer famously tangled with the Soviet government (coming close to arrest and/or imprisonment, although exactly how close is a matter open to dispute), and the theme of the event's three works was that they were all written to get Shostakovich back into the Communist Party's good graces.
		It is said that Shostakovich detested popular music meant to rouse the masses, but this is undoubtedly what the Festive Overture is. Heavy on the brass, the piece has a continually brisk tempo and a rousing melody.
		When this piece was composed (1934) jazz was the popular music of the West, and in allowing its influence to creep into this work, Shostakovich must have known he was skirting the boundaries of the popular.
	esposito.typepad.com /con_read/2006/03/shostakovich.html (1404 words)

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		Son: Maxim Shostakovich, born in 1937, currently lives in the USA and works as a conductor of many orchestras worldwide.
		I feel the best way to get into Shostakovich is slowly, and to this end I have decided to list a few works and recordings that I feel would be a good introduction to the works of Shostakovich.
		Shostakovich insisted the book be published after his death with good reason considering the material in it paints him in a light that the Soviet authorities of the day wouldn't have exactly been thrilled with.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /~mn200/music/shostakovich/afs-faq (2690 words)

	Shostakovich
		Nevertheless, the first large-scale work written by the 19-year old graduate of the Leningrad Conservatory still remains one of the most striking and attractive of his huge list of 147 works.
		Consciously or not, Shostakovich created themes full of chromatic motion, and he often avoided repeating notes, reminding us of the 12-note rows of the new Viennese innovators.
		Shostakovich himself loved his first symphonic work – it brought him great success and established his international reputation.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /dmitrismirnov/Shostakovich.html (440 words)

	Classical composer biographies
		Mozart’s, probably because in the orchestral works the sound tends to be denser, while his chamber music also seems quite complex.
		This is not to imply that all of his work is irredeemably grim.
		He sent some material to a publisher at one point, saying that the final work would be eight times as long, and that he thought it was the best stuff he’d ever done.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /users/mn200/music/composers.html (3150 words)

	Manhattan String Quartet - Shostakovich Celebration
		As one of the preeminent interpreters of the 15 quartets of Shostakovich, the Manhattan String Quartet will devote a great part of its 2005-2006 season to commemorating this great Soviet composer and his masterful contribution to the string quartet genre.
		With Shostakovich Quartet cycles scheduled from New York to Tokyo, the Manhattan Quartet will traverse the globe sharing the profound depths of human expression found in these extraordinary works.
		The Manhattan Quartet’s association with the Shostakovich Quartets began in 1985 with a series of concerts in Moscow and Leningrad, which led to two full tours of the Soviet Union in 1986 and 1989.
	www.manhattanstringquartet.com /Shostakovich.htm (282 words)

	'Play Along with the Masters' Series<BR>Dmitri Shostakovich
		Shostakovich began studying with his mother who was a professional pianist.
		This live performance of Shostakovich's 'Symphony No. 8' marks its UK premiere in 1960, when Mravinsky was at the height of his conducting powers.
		Shostakovich composed the mighty, five-movement symphony in 1943 to depict WW II's horrors and atrocities.
	www.classbrain.com /artteensb/publish/article_262.shtml (332 words)

	Shostakovich News
		CANTON Soloist Desmond Hoebig promised that Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 was "incredibly powerful, very emotional, and very physically aggressive." Hoebig, the principal cellist of the Cleveland...
		For more than half his life, Savion Glover, 32, has brought in the noise and the funk, which is to say that he re-energized tap dance by introducing it to the hip-hop generation.
		Well, Washington, we may not have a Shostakovich festival, but there are some concerts of contemporary music to lead off this week's agenda.
	www.topix.net /who/shostakovich (663 words)

	Dmitri Shostakovich--The DSCH Motif (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		While visual artists traditionally sign their works in the lower righthand corner of the frame, composers usually cannot leave such an imprint within their music itself.
		Others think that Shostakovich's friend, the English composer Benjamin Britten, came up with it, used it in one of his vocal works on the words "silly fellow," and then told Shostakovich what it meant.
		It is equally likely, though, that Shostakovich, intelligent as he was, came up with it on his own.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/jlozos/shostakovich/motif.html (221 words)

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